One leg is better than no legs.

First off hello and how are you guys??..  Thank you for reading me it’s always a pleasure.
So as you can remember last weekend I was off to do my sponsored 24 relay for life for cancer research.  Well you know you should pack up when you are trying to get up 3 million marquee’s and 2 tents and start a B-B-Q and a refreshment stall all the while the rain is falling happily from the sky..  Yeah you know that feeling right?.  For me it was all good, the sun didn’t come out but it definitely stopped raining by the time I had to to my support for breast cancer walk ..  Saturday passed and Sunday came. I was up for my last walk at 9am.  I grabbed my BFF Gina and off we went a couple of times round the track and then she snuck off to get me a nobbly bobbly, yes my fave everyone knows it..  Mark (Mr Salter our maths teacher) took over and we skipped probably just one skip and I felt like what only can be explained as if someone had jumped on the back of my leg and then a big twang and the my foot went all wobbly and I think because I was standing on it, was the reason it didn’t fall off.  Anyhooo a few St Johns Ambulance people (which I would like to thank for helping me) 2 hospitals later, I was home with one ruptured Achilles tendon and a plaster cast..  How lovely is that have a look what it is I have done…
 
Until Thursday I wont know whether its gone all the way through, I have an appointment with the Orthopaedist who is probably going to prod and poke and also examine my leg LOL!!! So I wont know until then.  In the mean time I’ve got to keep totally off it.. Not even stand on it, which is harder than you think. It’s the most painful thing I have ever done, and it cramps a lot which brings tears to my eyes..  Though I am hoping to get a lot done in the craft way..
On a good note, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who sponsored me, I myself raised around £160.00 which I still need to collect but I don't think they will mind me being a bit late with it..
It’s a total pain up the bum because I had so much planned for the holidays.  All the free days out and walks and picnic’s and beach time. BOOOOO..  Oh well never mind I can make up for that once I’m back on my feet….
Hope to give you all an update soon…xxxx

Winding Down.

Well hello my long lost people.  Actually though it was me who was long lost, but hello when you find out what I’ve be up to you will wonder why I’m not in a mental ward..
So since the last time we spoke I’ve had a trip to London, a wild time, 2 birthdays, a end of year disco, a mammoth cake making week, a shock to my system and to top it off a jab to my foot.
For Sonny’s birthday I said I would take him and a friend out for the day.  He chose Woburn Safari Park, oh it was lovely.  The animals were bouncing all over the place, mum was proposed to by a Rhino and the monkeys left footprints all over my car.  I did get any pics simply because I was driving and mum was filming with her camera, but I will try and figure out how to get a video here or on you tube and you can see for yourself how close we were to the animals.
Charlie was lucky enough to go back to London this year.  I found out the week before he could go so that was like a rush a round getting all his bits and bobs together.
My baby Charlie was 18 OH EM GEEEE!!!!!  He has gone from this……My little 1lb 13oz baby

to this………

My handsome little boy to this ……

My fabulous Young Man..  Oh how handsome is he!!!!…  Congrats Char for getting to 18 and getting though all the trials and tribulations of your life..  Love ya Loads moany bum xxxxx

Charlie chose to go to Clacton Pier and Sonny invited everyone and his aunt.  It was a great day it really was and I was surprised at how many people turned up here is a little list and I thank you all for coming

Jo Turner and her family, Carol Munday, Tamsin Beattie, Sarah, Harry and James Knapp, Nicola Alves and their friend Mel and Guy, my BFF Gina and her family Claire and James, Sally Booth along, Marie, Brian and Mark Folkes, Shazza Mumfy Mumford, Charlie, Sonny and Me!  It was a day to remember..  Thanks guys for making the boys birthday so special x

Miss Munday with Zoe and Sonny.Harry and James

Tams and Sonny

Sarah and Char

The Melted Mario Cake

Marie being Roy

All smiles before the ride, I was laughing so much at Sarah I couldn’t get a picture lol

Tams on the Dodgers.

Tams, Sonny and Zoe on the bikes.

Arsoles to you say Gina, Claire and James lol!!
My BFF Gina xxxx

Me and My BFF

At the Year 9 Leavers Party

Tams and Sonny Awwwww!
BFF with her mint choc chip diet Ice cream.  Seen as it was her birthday Mr Muldoone treated her..

BFF And Julie Claxton

Dickie Nibbling his ice cream.

Tamsin and Sonny’s first Dance AWWWWWWW!!!

So yes a really busy time.  All I have now is the RACE FOR LIFE this saturday and then I’m done.. 
Happy days readers…  Thanks for staying with me xxxx

I have found a new passion

Hey all I hope you are enjoying the weather..  Summer seems to have came early.  We did have a spot of rain here in good old Clacton which cleared the air..

This week I have been everything lol.  Busy is an understatement.  So you remember I had a bodger job put my bathroom in last year, which leaked and was falling apart, I found a really nice plumber called Ian who runs his company JB Plumbing.  Well he took out the old bathroom and installed the new and you wouldn’t even know he was there.  His partner in crime Colin was also very nice and they were both very polite and really clean and tidy.

Also this week I have found a new passion.  Which is for stamping..  I am loving it.  I have made quite a few cards.  Lucky I’m not starting a business otherwise we would go under in a week lol..  I’m very slow at making cards, I think that's because I am a tad ocd when it comes to having this perfect.. Though on saying that, I can see all the wonky bits on my cards lol.

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So the week progressed I had char’s social worker come to see him.. Deep joy!  He is moving from children services over to adult services, as he is 18 this month.   Oh where does the time go??..  I remember finding out I was preggy with my little baby binkle..

So to add to the mayhem.  I only had to have a cold and on top of that find out I had a dying nerve in my tooth, which needed emergency treatment.  I am so thankful for that.  I was in so much pain, I nearly bit Sonny’s head off.. Anyhoo Mr Willam Botha fitted me in before surgery.  He drilled and pulled and poked and when he pulled on my nerve it actually exploded, the smell was vile and the taste, well I wont go into..  But it was horrible.  He gave it a good clean up and sent me on my way looking like a chipmunk and feeling ok.  Once the numbness wore off, OH EMM GEE!!!! I was in that much pain I went to bed..  The Pain has subsided as well as the swelling, so I know it’s getting better.

I’m looking forward to going back to work on Monday.  The relay for life is  approaching fast.  I’ve been chosen to walk the hour for breast cancer support.. So I need to whip up some really funky bra’s..

I hope you have a wonderful week xxxx

I blog because I love blogging

Hello Loves..  I hope you are all well.  I myself have been very well as you do when you are busy you haven’t got the time to be ill LOL!!

Anyhoooo I have been super busy, well busyish.  I am doing my quilt along quilt, which is taking up swooper amounts of my time and I’m also resting up my foot. (Yes I’m still in agony.)

Today I joined in a class at school, I was all excited over the weekend, and how much has changed..  I went into a biology class with Mr Cook who said I was very welcome to join him if I wanted.  Well of course I wanted, I was invited to be present for a dissection of the heart, how gruesome is that?.  Not as gruesome as you think, a bit like cutting meat up.  But before I go on lets go back, hmmmmm (thinks hard) about 20 years.. I messed about at school, I never did very well due to the fact that I did have special needs (ADD), which is really no excuse, even so I miss out on a lot.  Working at the school gives me these opportunities to learn things.  I absolutely loved the lesson and I loved being in the lesson too.  I have been mulling over working as an LSA.. Maybe something to think about in the future, when I’m so much brighter..  Anyhooooo I couldn't believe how well behaved the classes were in comparison to when I was at school.  Children these days get so much help and so many opportunities to really bloom, I hope they take that opportunity. 

Rightio back to the crafty stuff in life..

I made some really lovely Lemonade.  There is nothing better and it’s easy as pie.  Cut up your lemons, I had 3 here for about 1.5 litres of water, then bring it to the boil adding sugar to taste.  I use granulated light sugar which brought it out just as nice. Simmered for about 30 minutes left to cool and then stuffed in the fridge to get icy cold..  YUM YUM..  Easy as that!

Now remember I told you I am joining the Quilt Along which Shruti is holding.  Well this is the first of about a million squares that I have cut and pieced back together. Yes some of them are super wonky, and some just wonky *grins*

This is my finished block.. I’m so loving the colours xxxxx Love you Colours

This is the beginning of my zigzag edging.  I’m doing 2, 50 x 50 inch ones that's a hell of a lot of squares *sigh* Which I am still ironing and cutting to size..

Anyhoo I don’t know when I will be able to get back..  But I hope not to be as long as I was last time..  My life comes before my blog and I am not obliged to blog, I blog because I love blogging xx

Have fun till next time we meet my lovely readers xxx

bless her manky knickers

This is me playing with my zoom zoom button on my camera……

This is mum giving me the evil’s..  How encouraging is she…  Actually though bless her manky knickers, she is really unwell at the moment.  After a few days of moaning and groaning about her ear aching, I finally snapped at her this morning to go and see the doctor *insert a few swear words*.  She went and was diagnosed with infection in both ears and was given hundreds of antibiotic’s..  Anyhooo less about her more about me..

How was your Easter?  Ours was pretty quiet like everything else we do, well quiet for us anyway lol..  We was off for ever and I did get so much done over the holiday’s it was really great.  I rested up my manky old foot and did loads of chores.. Back to work this week on Tuesday.  It was absolutely fabulous seeing everyone and the kids..  I love them all to bit’s. They all are so funny..  I must be the only person who loves going to work.  DO you love your job, or is a job you hate that you have no choice but to do?

I wanna show you something..

Do you like it?

Are you jealous?

You want one don’t you?

The colours are much better in life.  Would you like a closey?

Do you like that frilly edgy piece?

I really like this..  It’s kinda a put together with a pattern I used from Sarah London..  I kinda fiddled about and came up with this.. And Lucy inspired me for the wool.  So every one is a winner.. 

Especially me!

So the whole country has got the day off for the Royal Wedding!!

I’m not really a weddingy person, but mum is and so the TV will be on all day..  I’m off shopping, then I’m gonna sort out my closet and probably so something really mundane, like start some slip covers or something.  Who know what I will get up to!! What are you plan’s for the weekend?

So another long weekend for us as it is bank holiday on Monday..  We wont be doing anything as it’s a big year for me..  Char turns 18 and Sonny 14 so lots of pennies around June time, which I am saving for.

Well I am off now to discuss important things with my parent like, footstools and slip covers lol..

Have a wonderful weekend whatever you do xx